Hook or garment-fastener.



No. 891,202. PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908.

E. M. BORHEK.

HOOK 0R GARMENT FASTBNER. APPLICATION FILED SBPT.18,1907.

lvwmitoz l/Witnesses To all whom it "may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMIRA M. BORI-IEK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ridley Park, in the county of Delaware, State of 5Pennsylvania, have invented a new and use ful Hook or Garment-Fastener,of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to provide for ready and effectiveuniting of garments and bracing them against movement of the adjoiningparts.

A further purpose of my invention is to provide thehook of a hook andeye with separated parallel members forming a throat to preventaccidental disengagement, each part of the throat being formed of wireslying closer together than the thickness of the material of which thehook is formed and of which the eye would normally be constructed.

A further purpose of my invention is to provide a hook with an extendedlength of contracted passage in place of the ordinary hump and to formthis double, the two parts being spaced.

A further purpose of my invention is to so form one portion of theapproaching mem bers which make up the throat of a hook that the passageof the eye therethrough shall subject the wire of the hook to torsionalstrain as distinguished from direct spring strain.

A further purpose of my invention is to form a hook for use with an eyeusing a contracted portion in which torsional as well as spring movementtakes place.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a hook embodying one form of myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of an eye embodying myinvention. Figs. 3 and 4 represent plan views of modified forms of thehook and eye respectively shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 5 and 6represent plan views of modified forms of the hook and eye respectivelyshown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the drawings, 1 designates the piercing or pin portion of my hookwhich engages at its pointed end with a coil 2 when in closed position,and has its opposite end continuous of a suitable spring coil or loop 3,by which also the pin is connected with the rest of the hook andparticularly with the portion 4 which extends inwardly and upwardly toform an extended throat member 5 parallel with the side 6 ol theconverging bill 7 of the hook, the side 6 lying most desirably directlySpecification of Letters Patent.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMIRA M. BORHEK, OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOELIZA L. FOX, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK R GARMENT-FASTENER.

Patented June 1c, 1908.

Application filed September 18, 1907. Serial No. 393,570.

above the member to provide the throat of the hook between these twoportions.

The bill 7 of the hook is spaced from the side 6 and is similarly bentand in loose proximity to a portion 9 of the hook forming a similarthroat between it and the side 6.

The throat is most desirably narrow enough to engage the eye andinasmuch as it has been the practice to make the hooks and eyes ofsimilar material as to thickness and character, I describe the throat asmost desirably narrower than the material of the hook itself. Someportion of the advantage of my device will be attained even if this benot the case, because the substantially parallel sides forming spacedpassages, the eye is not likely to pass both of these at the same timewith the accidental changes in position occurring in the movements ofthe body and will be retained in the hook it it fail to pass througheither of'the two throats formed.

When the throats are narrower than the material of the hook andcorrespondingly of a properly mating eye, the hook will be caught ineither or both the throats, being retarded by the one in which it firstengages and a shorter length of throat may be used by reason of theirspaced character. The coil 2 is connected with the lower portion 9 ofthe throat by a member 10 preferably corresponding to the member 4 andbetween the parts 5 and 6 and 9 and 8, I connect my hook loops 11 and 12which form resting places for the eye 13 and which are somewhatlaterally extended as seen in Fig. 1 in order that downward pressureupon the lower portions of the two throat structures, namely 5 and 9,may result in torsional strain upon the parts 4 and 11 and 10 and 12respectively, 11 and 12. The divergent side members 4 and 10 join thethroat members, the sides 5 and 8 of the latter being not only disposedsubstantially directly beneath the side members 6 and 9 of the bill butextending in the same general direction therewith.

Passage of an eye through either of the throats formed will result invertical relative movement of the parts 5 and 6 and 9 and 8respectively, which, in the structure formed, wil produce a strain ofbending character chiefly in the parts of the bill 7 at 13 and 14 withsome slight torsional strain upon the wire of the loop in theneighborhood of 15 and more particularly upon the parts and 16, whilethe corresponding downward movement of the parts 5 and 9 will producetorsional strain in the loops 11 and 12 along the sides 17 and 18thereof. I thus get a combined torsional and bending effect. At the sametime, the upward and inward bend of each side between the points 15 and16 and the loops or coils 3 and 2, respectively, provide an extendedlength of wire between these points and give a spring to my hook nototherwise obtainable and relieves from the tendency of the bill of thehook to lift when there is strain upon the hook.

I preferably make my eye of the same general character as the hook as tothe coil 19 and loop or coil 20, using a pin 21 therefor and I space myeye preferably a little wider than the limits of the hook.

In Figs. 5 and 6, I have shown the same forms of construction asin'Figs. 1 and 2, except that I have used a shield form of catch 22'23in the hook and eye respectively.

-It will be evident that I obtain great elasticity in my hook andcombination torsional and bending strains with extended spaced throats.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hook of the character described having converging bill, divergentside members,

loops at the outer end of the bill and throat members lying directlybeneath and extending in the direction of the length of the sides ofsaid bill.

2. A hook of the character described, having converging bill, divergentside members, throat members lying directly beneath and extending in thedirection of the length of the sides of said bill, and divergent sidesbetween said throat members and the adjacent ends of the bill.

3. A hook of the character described, having a converging bill,laterally extended loops at one end of said bill, throat members beneaththe sides of said bill, and divergent side members joining said throatmembers and terminating in interengaging securing means.

4. A hook of the character described, having a converging bill,laterally extended loops at one end of said bill, throat members beneaththe sides of said bill, and divergent side members joining said throatmembers and terminating in interengaging securing means, the convergingsides of said loops being inclined downwardly.

ELMIRA M. BORHEK.

